(Minghui.org) Six Dongguang County, Hebei Province residents were recently sentenced in Shandong Province, because they practice Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline that has been persecuted by the Chinese communist regime since 1999.
Ms. Li Zhenying was sentenced to four years. Ms. Cheng Guijun and Mr. Yu Yongli both received three years. Ms. Zhang Wenping was sentenced to two years. Mr. Men Bingcheng was given one and a half years. Ms. Song Guifen was sentenced to one year. They were also fined between 3,000 and 10,000 yuan. Five of them (names unknown) have appealed the verdicts.
The six practitioners were arrested on June 19, 2024, after police in neighboring Ningjin County, Shandong Province discovered that they went to the local community fair in their jurisdiction, to talk to people about Falun Gong. The police monitored them for six months before arresting them.
The practitioners were held at the Dezhou City Detention Center in Shandong Province. Dezhou oversees Ningjin. Prosecutor Zheng Fangrong of the Ningjin County Procuratorate approved their arrests on July 29, 2024 and indicted them in early October 2024.
The Ningjin County Court held three hearings, on April 18, August 12 and 13, 2025. During the first hearing, all five family defenders were blocked by the bailiffs from entering. The lawyer representing Ms. Zhang was also stopped at the gate, as he was waiting for one of the family members.
With no other way to stop the hearing, the practitioners’ families decided to dismiss the lawyers (except for the lawyer who represented Ms. Zhang, as he wasn’t allowed to enter the courtroom).
During the second and third hearings in August, five of the practitioners testified in their own defense and five of their lawyers also entered not guilty pleas for them.
Minghui.org learned about the practitioners’ verdicts on November 14, 2025.
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